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Preface

Introduction: Mushrooms, Enchantment, and Mysticism Without Religion
1. Flesh of the Gods? Mushrooms in the History of Religions
2. Seeking the Magic Mushroom: R. Gordon Wasson and the Birth of a Global Mushroom Mysticism in the 1950s
3. High Priests: Walter Pahnke and the Mushroom Counterculture of the 1960s
4. Neo-Shamans: Terence McKenna and the Explosion of Mushroom Mysticism in the 1970s and 1980s
5. How Mushrooms Can Save the World: Paul Stamets and Myco-Evangelism in the 1980s and 1990s
6. Mushrooms, Mysticism, and Pharmaceuticals: Roland Griffiths and the Rebirth of Psilocybin Research
Conclusion: Mushrooms and the Arts of Living and Dying on a Damaged Planet

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index